Word: psychotherapist
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...what some experts say is a more pervasive problem. Roman Catholic clergymen today are violating their church's strictures on sex. Based on interviews conducted over the past 25 years with 1,000 priests and 500 other men and women, many of them the sexual partners of clerics, Baltimore psychotherapist A.W. Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine monk, estimates that half the 53,000 Roman Catholic priests in the U.S. are breaking their vow of celibacy. According to Sipe, whose findings are being published this month in A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy (Brunner-Mazel; $29.95), about...
...Every time I help, she tells me I'm doing it wrong. I quit. I'm not interested in being criticized all the time.' " Such conflicts often reflect deeper issues of power and expectation. "There's a lot of denial around the issues of envy and competition," says family psychotherapist Emily Marlin. "Who's doing better? And what does that mean...
...same time, people are growing disillusioned with the rewards of high- powered, high-profile careers. "People are asking, 'Where am I really going on the fast track?' " says psychotherapist Marlin. "They aren't dropping out, like in the '60s, but they are more introspective about the kinds of things they feel are ultimately going to be satisfying." Increasingly, couples speak of "quality-of-life" issues, as they weigh the demands of work against the desire for more family and leisure time. Worship at the career altar is becoming passe...
Edmund Valentine White III was born 50 years ago in Cincinnati to a father who was a chemical engineer and a mother who was a psychologist for retarded children. He is the seventh Valentine in the White descent. His older sister Margaret Fleming, a psychotherapist, recalls that even as a small boy her brother was different: "Like most kids I was a conformist, but not Ed. I didn't understand him then and probably tortured him a lot . . . Today he's my hero. When my parents divorced, he was only seven, and he took it very hard. He became...
There are, of course, dissenters from the idea of greater disclosure. Los Angeles psychotherapist Nancy Kless, who specializes in treating crime ( victims, contends that the "secondary injury" of being named can impede patients' recovery. Irene Nolan, managing editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal, wishes her paper could name rape victims but concedes that such a move might deter some women from reporting assaults to police. "I would like to change the paper's policy, but I don't think our community is ready for it," says Nolan...